Year 1
Mrs Lewis and Mrs DochertyWelcome to Year 1
Whoops a Daisy Angel
We hope you enjoyed watching all of our Year 1, 2 and 3 children performing and singing like absolute stars. We are incredibly proud of everyone as the show was simply amazing!
Gymnastics
Year 1 finished their gymnastics unit by practicing their travelling movements, balances, shapes and jumps on the apparatus.
Year 1’s introduction to computing!
Throughout this term Year 1 have been learning the basic skills of our computing curriculum. They are now able to use the iPads to login and access Purple Mash and Numbots. The children have created their own avatars on both programmes to personalise their workspace...
Jane Newberry
Jane Newberry is a poet that we have been studying over the last couple of weeks. Over the next week or so we will be creating our very own fact files all about Jane Newberry. Today we worked together to sort interesting facts about Jane into ideas that go together...
Earth Art
During the half term holidays the Year 1 children were asked to collect natural materials from their local area ready for our Earth Art unit this half term. So far we have created some fantastic sculptures and leaf hedgehogs. The children are currently exploring...
Gender Stereotypes
In our PSHE lesson this morning, Year 1 have begun to learn about gender stereotypes. Our first activity was to sort the activity cards into two hoops depending on whether it was more likely to be liked or done by a boy or a girl. We found a few problems with this as...
Disney Fitness
Year 1 enjoyed our visit to Lord Lawson this afternoon to take part in a variety of Disney Fitness stations with Year 1 children from local schools. We loved our fitness activities and worked very hard. We finished off by joining in with a Disney dance.
Year 1 Pumpkin Carving
To end our DT unit, Year 1 had a lovely Halloween treat this afternoon carving their very own pumpkins. First we designed what we wanted our pumpkins to look like, then we scooped out all of the seeds from inside before transferring our designs to the pumpkins. Our...
Baptism
In our RE topic this half term we have been learning about 'Belonging'. The children have talked about belonging to a family and also belonging to different groups like school and various clubs they go to. We have also enjoyed finding out about baptism and how...
Year 1 visit to Beamish
We have had an amazing day out at Beamish and found out so much about what life was like in the past. We started the day off with a toy workshop exploring old fashioned toys and comparing them to toys today. Then we visited the shops in the 1950s town and also looked...
Childhood in the 1950s
In preparation for our visit to Beamish next week, Hannah came into school to talk about the new ‘Romer Parrish’ toy shop at Beamish which is a replica of the 1950s toy shop in Middlesbrough. We talked about how the toys that we play with today are different from the...
The Part-Whole Model
Year 1 have been learning that the part-whole model is a pictorial representation that shows the relationship between a whole and its parts. This is useful to help our understanding of addition and subtraction. We used children, beanbags, shapes and animals to...